But if AFROYIM v. RUSK were overturned, American Jews who vote in Israel or serve in the Israeli army would risk losing their US citizenship.

Lieberman is most likely proposing his dishonest and unconstitutional law on behalf of the Israeli right wing. Rightwing Zionists have managed to get most organizations opposing Israel’s colonization project in the West Bank declared terrorist organizations. They hope that then anyone who objects to the aggressive expansionary policy of the Israeli government can be branded as giving material support to terrorist organizations and so could be denaturalized and even deported from the US. In other words, Lieberman, a latter-day McCarthyite, would like to do to the American Left and Realists what Israel has already done to the Palestinians, and render them stateless and voiceless.

The ruthlessness and frankly fascist tactics of these rightwing nationalists (I know Lieberman is a domestic liberal, but then in some ways so was Peron) are astonishing. And likely they would boomerang against the Jewish-American community. Might not proponents of the West Bank settlers be construed by some courts as giving material support to terrorism? But then they are not designed actually to benefit Jews or Israel; they are designed to benefit Greater Israel ideology.

Since Lieberman is a Jew, I found his “knowledge” about stripping a bit weird; for instance, didn’t he know what happened to John Demjanjuk? Also, the Constitution notes there need be only two witnesses for treasonous statements. Doesn’t he remember Aaron Burr? Now that we have video, this could be easier to prove to a legal standard. We do have a process, and it works very well when followed. As for the warmongering charge, as a Vietnam veteran I notice the draft dodgers like Lieberman, Cheney, Bolton, et alia always talk tough to over compensate for their personal cowardice. Just read the names on the New Hampshire Gazette’s “Chickenhawk Database” to see what I mean.

Dr. Rudy Kastner

My understanding is the US government can revoke a US passport arbitrarily. So this is not adding any new ‘power’ to the US government as a US national abroad has few privileges that do not involve a passport.

Wesley Snipes, Paul Robeson, and Philip Agee are the answers to the trivia question: Americans that have had their passports revoked.

Minor legal issues can get your passport revoked too: Matt Tulley, 33, said he was contacted just before Christmas by officials who told him that, because he owed child support payments to a former girlfriend, he could not work overseas.